Well the machinest started on the Triple X this week, we found a couple interesting things, the valve guides were wore out, which were supposed to have been checked on the last build, but here's the funny one, the connecting rod diameters at the bearing surface were less than the minimum diameter, so they were tighter than spec at required touque, anyone ever hear of that? We are going to grind them out to spec as we work throguh the other stuff.
Also found that the squirter for the timing gear was at the .070 dimension instead of .040. We decided to change that to .020 as this guy builds race engines and never uses anything over .020 on 8000 rpm motors, I'm going to trust him. We also changed the oil gallery to add a full flow oil filter, spin on type. Now the oil comes out of the pump, to the filter, down to number 1 rod bearing and through the galley to number 4 and the gage. So the gage will show the lowest system pressure.
We also checked the cam bearing surfaces, one was at .004, one at .0055, one at .0035. So were going to look at chroming the cam at those spots to build it up then machine it back to spec dimensions, thought about line bore it and put in bearings but the block is too long for his tools. Keep you posted on that one, it might be too $$$ for my blood.
